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Organizers have canceled a protest planned for Monday at Abercrombie & Fitch’s corporate
headquarters in New Albany and later at the A&F store in Easton Town Center.

Cali Linstron, a 17-year-old girl who is featured in the upcoming documentary
America the Beautiful 3, dealing with the sexualization of America’s youth, planned to
join other teenagers in the protest.

But after organizers spoke with Abercrombie officials today, “we worked out an agreement,” said
Darryl Roberts, a spokesman for the organizers. “We would meet with them to come up with something
positive for teens, a big program to benefit change and self-esteem. It’s going to be way
cool."

The protest organizers will meet with Abercrombie officials on Tuesday, Roberts said.

An Abercrombie spokeswoman confirmed that the protest had been called off.

The protests had been planned after online anger grew over comments that Abercrombie & Fitch
CEO Michael S. Jeffries made during a 2006 interview that had resurfaced and gone viral over the
past week.

Much of the uproar focused on Abercrombie’s strategy of not making women’s clothing in any size
above "large."

In the
Salon magazine story from 2006, which resurfaced recently in a business-news website 's
story, Jeffries said, “We go after the cool kids. We go after the attractive all-American kid with
a great attitude and a lot of friends. A lot of people don’t belong (in our clothes), and they can’t
belong. Are we exclusionary? Absolutely.”

Jeffries, 68, said this week he regrets that his “choice of words was interpreted in a manner
that has caused offense.”

After the interview resurfaced, a petition popped up on Change.org last week to pressure the
company to change that policy. Then a Huffington Post blogger posted an open letter to Jeffries. A
YouTube video appeared this week in which a man distributed the company’s clothes to homeless
people on Los Angeles’ skid row.

The protest was being planned by the same group who had mounted a demonstration on Monday in
front of an Abercrombie & Fitch store in downtown Chicago.

“We’re not trying to hurt Mike Jeffries or Abercrombie,” Roberts said. “We’re trying to make
sure teens are respected.”